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From Dick Taylor at Marquette University, an announcement of a summer conference: "Aquinas and the Arabs: A Conference on Issues in Medieval Arabic / Islamic & Jewish Philosophy and their Influence on Medieval Philosophy and Theology in the European West." The conference will be held on June 20-21, 2008, on the Marquette University campus (Milwaukee, WI). Papers are welcome on issues in (i) Arabic / Islamic & Jewish Philosophy, (ii) Medieval Latin Philosophy and Theology, and (iii) (particularly) influences and/or parallel philosophical developments. See the conference's website here.

Mark Johnson is an associate professor of Theology at Marquette University, and founded thomistica.net on Squarespace in November of 2004. He studied with James Weisheipl, Leonard Boyle, Walter Principe, and Lawrence Dewan, at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto, Canada).